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genius - my co-worker got a nexus 4 last week and set up face recognition for unlock. he shaved his (very short) beard this morning. it doesn’t unlock and the pin doesn’t work.
now he has to restore the phone. genius

@0xmf it really is - makes having a recent backup even more important. but also shows why using experimental features like that might not be the best of ideas.
of course we told him he could just wait until the beard grows back :P

@jenni: his face may get altered with the worry he experiences in the UK time it takes to grow the beard and so the phone may still not recognise him despite growing the beard. I am sure he must have not consider this funny at all.

@jenni: well as being the owner of a beard myself, I can say I would not be amused but your anecdote is a good lesson for me never to consider using facial recognition to unlock anything.... err.... any devices, I always want my face to unlock people :-)

Haha RP @jenni genius - my co-worker got a nexus 4 last week and set up face recognition for unlock. he shaved his (very short) beard this morning. it doesn’t unlock and the pin doesn’t work.
now he has to restore the phone. genius

@jenni I had a Nexus 4 for a week. It crashed constantly and therefore I returned it. But the face unlocking worked like a charm. Tested it with other guys in the office and it kept locked. Was very impressed :)

@tiberiu Comparable to my iPhone 5. Lasts a day under normal usage. The thing that totally freaked me out, not counting the constant crashes, was the very dark standard automatic setting for the display. And the volume of my BT headset was lower. Why? :D

@jenni Same thing here. I see patents for new stuff constantly and then I’m always into the next new thingy. But iOS is more polished and the experience does not differ drastically from one app to the other. This keeps me coming back :)

@dermarkus yeah, i want to try it just because it is different but knowing that OS updates might take month to come to my device would drive me insane. because i want them now, not some time in the future ;)

@chartier@mrgan lol, i didn’t think of that in time :D that would have been an epic experiment but until i had stopped laughing the max number of tries was reached so he just sat down to quietly restore it

@richg@chartier he swears he set it to his usual PIN (and you have to enter it twice) but that PIN didn’t work and he tried similar combinations and none of those didn’t work either. No idea what was going on.

@jenni@chartier My money is on him messing up setting the PIN -- and if you forget the passcode on iOS, you have to factory reset and reinstall that, too. So I think the story is slightly less "LOLdroid" than it first appears ;)

@richg@chartier yeah, that was my assumption, too, that he simply set it wrong. he was swearing he was very deliberate in typing but who knows. but for me personally it didn’t remove any of the fun ^-^
and i think if pin not know = restore is right way

@chartier@jenni Sure, but if he'd not goofed the PIN (if he did), the story would be "facial recognition still crap, area man unlocks phone with passcode instead, mpeg at 11." Which isn't very LOLsome really.

>> @jenni: genius - my co-worker got a nexus 4 last week and set up face recognition for unlock. he shaved his (very short) beard this morning. it doesn’t unlock and the pin doesn’t work.
now he has to restore the phone. genius

@ryantharp I didn't. I only mentioned @jenni but your name showed up from alpha when I hit "send". I think that's because you're also active in the thread... Anyway, I refreshed the browser and it went back to normal.